Renaissance Healing, PLLC

Renaissance Healing, PLLC 🤍 therapy for deep thinkers & big feelers
👁️ mind-body healing + parts work + relational
🎟️ come as you are
📍licensed in Arizona & Virginia

We can have a “light switch” in our nervous system—flipping between over-giving and shutting down, between fawning and f...
11/05/2025

We can have a “light switch” in our nervous system—flipping between over-giving and shutting down, between fawning and fighting.

Both ends are survival. Both are ways the body protects connection and safety.

The work isn’t to get rid of either.
It’s to install a dimmer aka to bring discernment, tracking, and choice into the moment.

This is the somatic practice: learning to sense your own capacity, to feel your body’s signals before they spill into reaction.

When we track, we reclaim the space between impulse and response.

We learn to stay connected—to ourselves and others—without disappearing or exploding.

From light switch to dimmer: this is what embodied boundaries look like.

Happy 3rd birthday to my furry soulmate and everyone’s favorite co-therapist 🐾 Morrie!!!!!From the 9lb baby who once tre...
11/05/2025

Happy 3rd birthday to my furry soulmate and everyone’s favorite co-therapist 🐾 Morrie!!!!!

From the 9lb baby who once trembled at the bottom of the apartment stairs to the confident explorer who’s wandered through woods, beaches, lakes, and deserts — you’re living proof that healing is both tender and brave. 💗✨

Here’s to growing, grounding, and greeting the world with curiosity one paw print at a time.

Healing is rarely a straight line. Usually it is more like a daily practice. Awareness doesn’t erase old patterns overni...
11/04/2025

Healing is rarely a straight line. Usually it is more like a daily practice. Awareness doesn’t erase old patterns overnight, it just gives you the map to navigate them with more compassion next time.

So if you catch yourself repeating something you thought you were “past,” that’s not failure it’s feedback. You’re still learning how to live what you know.

SNAP benefits are ending for many households, but you’re not alone.Here’s how to get support, donate, or help your neigh...
11/01/2025

SNAP benefits are ending for many households, but you’re not alone.
Here’s how to get support, donate, or help your neighbors right now.

Let’s take care of each other 🤍

Lately, I’ve been feeling called to connect more deeply with the therapists in my work. The ones who hold so much, who k...
10/30/2025

Lately, I’ve been feeling called to connect more deeply with the therapists in my work. The ones who hold so much, who keep showing up with open hearts, even when their own bodies whisper that it’s a lot.

If that’s you, I have a few mid-afternoon openings on Tuesdays + Wednesdays — a space to land between sessions, to let your system breathe, and to come back home to yourself.

Somatic therapy for therapists in Arizona + Virginia.

Availability is limited, but if this speaks to you, you can check the link in my bio to schedule a consult.

🕊️ Let’s make space for your nervous system to exhale again.

Even the Renaissance began with sketches and revisions. Let your mistakes be drafts of your becoming.We’re so quick to j...
10/27/2025

Even the Renaissance began with sketches and revisions. Let your mistakes be drafts of your becoming.

We’re so quick to judge the parts of ourselves that were still learning, but healing asks for patience. The goal was never to be flawless—it’s to be honest. To be curious about what each mistake was trying to teach you instead of using it as proof that you failed.

You’re allowed to evolve in public. You’re allowed to rewrite your story without shame.

✨ Follow for more reminders that healing is an art, not a performance.

We talk a lot about healing as if it’s a destination — as if once we find the right tool, the right therapist, the right...
10/21/2025

We talk a lot about healing as if it’s a destination — as if once we find the right tool, the right therapist, the right words, we’ll finally feel safe inside.
But the truth is: your system isn’t waiting for perfection.
It’s waiting for your presence.
In both IFS and somatic work, we don’t “fix” parts or force the body to calm down.
We return to the places inside us that were never truly met.
The ones that froze. The ones that protected. The ones that waited for someone to come back and say:
I see you. I’m not leaving.
This is the healing no one talks about — the healing that doesn’t look like progress from the outside, but feels like reunion on the inside.
Less control. More contact.
Less strategy. More witnessing.
Not because pain disappears when we pay attention… but because it stops having to yell to be heard.
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Let your body feel you with it today. That’s enough.

Avoidance isn’t failure, it’s communication.It’s your nervous system whispering, “I’m overwhelmed, can we slow down?”You...
10/20/2025

Avoidance isn’t failure, it’s communication.
It’s your nervous system whispering, “I’m overwhelmed, can we slow down?”
You don’t have to push through every pause or label it resistance. Sometimes it’s your body asking for regulation before re-engagement.
Take the pause. Breathe. Step back enough to reset, not disappear.
Healing doesn’t mean you never need space — it means you know how to return.

Follow for more reminders to meet yourself where you are, not where you think you should be.

Ahhhhh this trend hit me harder than I expected wowowow 🥹🥹🥹🥹 Holding a version of my younger self felt like holding ever...
10/16/2025

Ahhhhh this trend hit me harder than I expected wowowow 🥹🥹🥹🥹

Holding a version of my younger self felt like holding every version of me that fought to feel safe in her body. The little girl who learned to perform instead of feel. The teen who carried wisdom and worry at the same time. The woman who finally realized healing isn’t about becoming someone new — it’s about coming home to the body that’s been with you through it all.

As a therapist, I witness this moment in others all the time. It is this quiet reunion between who we were and who we’ve become.

✨ Here’s to softening into the parts of us that never stopped trying — the ones who carried us through chaos, silence, and becoming. The ones who didn’t need fixing, just witnessing.

When I look at her, I don’t just see who I was. I feel the pulse of everything that’s still alive in me — the tenderness, the courage, the ache, the wonder. Healing isn’t about erasing her story. It’s about letting her take up space in this version of me too.

Follow for gentle, grounded reminders that healing can be both sacred and messy.

Cognitive dissonance is the inner tension we experience when our beliefs, values, or actions are out of alignment. While...
10/13/2025

Cognitive dissonance is the inner tension we experience when our beliefs, values, or actions are out of alignment. While it’s often described as a mental conflict, the body is where it first and most honestly responds.

Somatically, cognitive dissonance can show up as a racing heart, shallow breath, clenched jaw, gut discomfort, or a vague sense of agitation or “wrongness” that we can’t quite name. It’s the nervous system signaling that something doesn’t add up — even before the conscious mind has caught up.

We often resolve this tension by unconsciously defending old beliefs, minimizing new information, or rationalizing behavior that no longer fits. These responses are adaptive strategies. It’s easier to dismiss, deflect, or double down than to sit in the discomfort of: “What if I’ve been wrong?”

In somatic therapy, we work with this tension gently. Rather than rushing to resolve it, we slow down. We track the body’s signals, regulate the nervous system, and stay in relationship with the discomfort. We ask: What part of me is being protected by this belief? What truth am I resisting and why?

The goal is not to shame ourselves for our defenses, but to build the capacity to hold contradiction without collapse. This is how we grow not just intellectually, but somatically and relationally.
This work is slow, courageous, and necessary — especially now.

This is associative learning: your body links sensations, emotions, and experiences together and stores them as patterns...
10/09/2025

This is associative learning: your body links sensations, emotions, and experiences together and stores them as patterns for future protection.

Here’s what that can look like:
→ You freeze during conflict because your nervous system learned early that speaking up leads to punishment.
→ You feel anxious when someone pulls away emotionally because distance used to mean abandonment.
→ You shut down when someone’s angry, not because you’re weak, but because your body still registers anger as danger.
→ You over-apologize, over-function, or people-please because staying small once kept you safe.

Even when your mind knows you’re safe, your body may not believe it yet.
But this is not permanent.
Your nervous system is plastic it can unlearn and rewire.



It’s not about saying the right thing—it’s about your body, words, and presence all lining up. Alignment matters because...
10/08/2025

It’s not about saying the right thing—it’s about your body, words, and presence all lining up. Alignment matters because our nervous system is constantly scanning for safety and trust. When a therapist’s words, tone, and body are all in sync, the client can feel understood and regulated at a bodily level. Misalignment, even subtle, creates tension, confusion, or mistrust, no matter how “right” the words sound. Stop performing. Start being.

Follow for more insights from the therapy room.

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Gilbert, AZ
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Tuesday 10am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 10am - 5:30pm
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